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Where can you mine Bitcoin and Ether in 2020? Here are the top tips about mining pools and what you need to know before joining one of them.
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F2pool News
F2Pool is a mining pool, which is a collaboration of miners where everyone contributes some computer power to discover blocks. F2Pool, also known as Discus Fitch, was launched in 2013 and is currently one of five largest mining pools in the world. In 2014, F2Pool became available for mining not only Bitcoin, but also some popular altcoins as well. The project was founded by Chinese investors and is now headquartered in China. There are about two million active users of the pool, of which 50 percent are Chinese citizens. Besides the main rewards for mining, users get a three percent reward for using the pool. This is the only pool operating with peer-to-peer payments. F2Pool fees for withdrawal doesn’t surpass four percent. F2Pool payouts are daily, and they are automatically sent to F2Pool’s wallet.
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F2Pool returns about $500,000 in abnormal ETH transaction fee to its sender after encountering the issue on June 11.
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A single mining pool managed to mine six consecutive blocks on the Bitcoin network, raising the question of whether that’s a challenge to security or an improbable coincidence?
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The block size debate is among the most contentious discourse in Bitcoin, having spawned numerous community rifts and contested proposals.
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Co-founder of the world’s sixth largest crypto mining pool has published a list of break-even price points for various crypto miner models.
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Mining service Nicehash hacked, over $60 mln in user funds stolen.
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A brief history of SegWit2x, and consequences of its cancellation.
19459 SegWit2x appears to have made an enemy of South Korea’s Seoul Bitcoin Meetup, which has confirmed its “staunch opposition”.
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SegWit2x fork receives a huge blow as New York Agreement signatory F2Pool ceases signalling for the fork.
22246 The future of the hard fork looks increasingly shaky as F2pool signals it has stopped supporting SegWit2x.
28344As the August 1 deadline draws near, f2pool becomes the next company to voice support for scaling.
12293Major mining pool F2Pool has formally announced SegWit support, saying block size increases can be for “future discussions.”
2575The world's third largest Bitcoin mining Pool F2Pool finally decides to support Bitcoin Core’s Segregated Witness (SegWit) on both Bitcoin and Litecoin.
14868Earlier today, Wang Chun, the owner of F2Pool, the second largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, clarified that he was never against the activation of Bitcoin Core’s Segregated Witness (SegWit) on Litecoin.
6648Saturday, F2Pool mined Segregated Witness (SegWit) blocks for both Bitcoin and Litecoin. Almost immediately after the pool’s signaling of SegWit, major Chinese mining pools were hacked and their hash power was allocated to F2Pool, making F2Pool the single largest mining pool in the world for a brief moment.
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